Armthorpe was home of Markham Main Colliery until it closed in the mid-1990s, with generations of villagers working at the mine.

Jo McQuade, miners daughter and local government officer, with a model of the proposed Doncaster mining memorial

It holds an annual memorial service for miners who worked there, and already has a memorial locally.

But parish council chairman Coun Sue McGuinness said members of the parish council were unanimous in pledging money to back the appeal.

She said: “The parish council supports the plan for a memorial and made a donation because Armthorpe’s heritage comes from mining.

“There are quite a lot of former miners on the parish council. Many of the families who lived in the village today moved here because of the mine. I’m really supportive of the project.

“Many of the older members of the community still have a strong attachment to the mining heritage.

“I think it will be great to have a mining memorial in place in the town centre, and I think it is something Doncaster needs. A lot of the surrounding villages were mining villages. It is all part of our history that should not be forgotten.”